From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 18 21:40:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB6B21065672 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:40:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2CC08FC2E for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:40:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Status: No X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.001, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, BAYES_40 -0.00) X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-ID: o3ILZdVm013515 Received: from kobe.laptop (ppp-94-64-228-157.home.otenet.gr [94.64.228.157]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.1) with ESMTP id o3ILZdVm013515 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:35:45 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o3ILZc1k052401 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:35:39 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o3ILZbbS052398; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:35:37 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Dan Naumov References: <20100418010523.M58298@brightstar.bomgardner.net> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:35:37 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Dan Naumov's message of "Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:34:19 +0300") Message-ID: <87r5mcwija.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Gene , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: version/revision control software for things mostly not source X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:40:51 -0000 On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:34:19 +0300, Dan Naumov wrote: > I've looked at SVN and it looks reasonably easy to grok, but reading > the "Version Control with Subversion" book... it seems there is no > actual way to truly erase/delete/destoy/purge a part of an existing > repository? This sounds rather weird and annoying. What if I decide > that project XYZ is beyond redemption and abandon it, I delete the > working copy of it, but all history is still in there, gigabytes upon > gigabytes of data. With no way to remove it, it sounds like a really > big limitation. svndumpfilter may help. It also helps if you give each project it's own repository, but then the administration costs of setting up all the separate repositories are going to be non-negligible.